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Scattering Amplitudes of Kaluza-Klein Strings and Extended Massive Double-Copy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-03-04 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the scattering amplitudes of massive Kaluza-Klein (KK) states of open and closed bosonic strings under toroidal compactification. We analyze the structure of vertex operators for the KK strings and derive an extended massive KLT-like relation which connects the NN-point KK closed-string amplitude to the products of two KK open-string amplitudes at tree level. Taking the low energy field-theory limit of vanishing Regge slope, we derive double-copy construction formula of the NN-point massive KK graviton amplitude from the sum of proper products of the corresponding KK gauge boson amplitudes. Then, using the string-based massive double-copy formula, we derive the exact tree-level four-point KK gauge boson amplitudes and KK graviton amplitudes, which fully agree with those given by the KK field-theory calculations. With these, we give an explicit prescription on constructing the exact four-point KK graviton amplitudes from the sum of proper products of the corresponding color-ordered KK gauge boson amplitudes. We further analyze the string-based double-copy construction of five-point and six-point scattering amplitudes of massive KK gauge bosons and KK gravitons.

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@article{arxiv.2111.12042,
  title  = {Scattering Amplitudes of Kaluza-Klein Strings and Extended Massive Double-Copy},
  author = {Yao Li and Yan-Feng Hang and Hong-Jian He and Song He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.12042},
  year   = {2022}
}

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41 pages, JHEP version, only minor refinements, references added